Hmm… When things like that are badly handled from the beginning, it’s often hard to fix it any other way than a manual fix. Yes, Media Browser is the way to bring RED clips into Premiere. You don’t need XMP in this situation, if everything were done correctly.
On the Resolve side, make sure you bring all of the RED files into your Media Pool first and then import the XML as a timeline and point to the files in your Media Pool. Generally this works, however, the name differences of the spanned clips may cause problems. Your Resolve project rate should still be 29.97 to match the Premiere sequence. When you import the RED clips, do not change the frame rate.
Did the editor do anything to “interpret” the clips in Premiere. Such as change the clip’s base frame rate? If so, Resolve will end up syncing to the wrong part of the clip. I’ve had similar situations from Avid projects and the simplest fix was to over-cut the clips by TC (the old linear editing way) and go clip-by-clip like that until you are done.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com